Tasha's Transcendental Experience In Imani All Mine

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In the novel, Imani All Mine, Tasha has a spiritually charged transcendental experience. Tasha’s experience heavily assists in the creation of her own narrative. For example, when Tasha begins her journey to church she experiences the beginning of her enlightenment. Tasha states, “My feet brung me...like they knew more than mind”, which reveals Tasha’s gradual detachment from the physical world. He body and mind are not in sync. When Tasha notices “girls singing and clapping to the same songs I used to… arguing about what they argue about since I was little”, it separates her from the present. Furthermore, the scene including the children playing assists Tasha in furthering her detachment from the physical being by inducing nostalgia. The remembrance